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Who is the best critique for your startup?
Disclaimer: The views expressed here are solely mine and not of my company Muziboo. However since I own half of Muziboo ….. :)
You are working hard on your startup and you meet tons of new people every week and tell them about your startup. If you are lucky, probably 1% of them would love your [...]
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Kaati Zone brings the concept of beta to food joints
There were days when internet companies used to launch and not enter private alphas, public betas and other such states. Then came the concept of release early release often in the web and sites would not wait forever but release a beta and let the most enthusiastic users in. These users would brave broken functionality [...]
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How an online community is different from a Social Network
Its very interesting to watch the reaction of people when we tell them that we run an online music community. Most people think that we run a social network and dismiss it right away. A few people get curious and ask us to explain the concept. Very few people we meet already understand the difference. [...]
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How to get noticed by press
For an early stage startup, it is very important to be recognized by the press. Word of mouth is a neat way of spreading but it works well only after you have reached a critical mass. In a country like India, people trust newspapers and magazines a lot. Once you are on a newspaper, your [...]
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Hosting Review : VpsFarm.com
I had written sometime back about why shared hosting is bad for your startup and recommended VPS hosting for any serious web venture. Today, as promised in that post, I am writing a review of VPSFarm.com. VPSFarm is based out of US and while researching for VPS provieders, I found them to be pretty good. [...]
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Five wrong ways to design the UI for your website
I have been working on Muziboo for the last 11 months now. We have done one major design revision and countless small iterations to improve the design (and ofcourse the usability). Things have show a lot of improvement and often even surprised us a lot. Being an engineer by graduation and at heart, its pretty [...]
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Value Creation v/s Value Creation
This may seem like a funny topic for a blog post. The idea is not to come up with a title that draws attention (I hope it does) but to write about an inherent dilemma that lot of bootstrappers go through. I go through it and I know a few other people go through it. [...]
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Order food online in Bangalore - HungryBangalore.com
HungryBangalore.com lets you order food online in Bangalore. The website is part of the hungryzone group but online ordering is currenly available only in Bangalore. You can however find reviews and contact details of restaurents in many other cities like Bhopal, Delhi, Goa etc. I live in Bangalore and I tried the service finally [...]
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Is your code touching lives?
I was chatting with George yesterday and he mentioned how Muziboo had really touched his life and made it better in the last few months. He also told about how Orkut is an indispensable part of his life as it helped him connect with friends he lost touch with years ago. I think thats the [...]
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Is a million good enough anymore?
I was at barcamp bangalore 6 yesterday and as I wrote, it was a lot of fun. I spent almost the entire day hanging out with people I know and there were lots of discussions on startups in general and muziboo in particular. On e question keeps coming up again and again. What is our [...]
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